Take my advice and start your 2012 reading with this outstanding debut novel by Beth Hoffman.
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt is a charming story that will have readers laughing out loud at the quirky female characters and witty storyline.
CeeCee's mother is a pretty, but slightly mad, former Vidalia Onion Queen. When she is suddenly killed her 12-year-old daughter is sent to stay with Great Aunt Tootie in a southern mansion that is nothing like anything CeeCee has seen before.
There she finds a friend in her aunt's housekeeper and cook, Oletta.
She also meets the neighbours who get up to all sorts of shenanigans.
